Interesting Aboriginal Art Facts

Some Aboriginal Art facts.

Aboriginal art is one of the oldest surviving art forms still practiced today.

As a style it has been documented to be many thousands of years old.

It is also the newest form of cultural art work to be commercialized with its commercialization starting about 1970 from Papunya, Northern Territory and now carried out through art centers in many Aboriginal communities throughout Australia.

The oldest of the paintings likely being several thousand years old in caves and have been painted with
Ochre.

These paintings mostly in caves, are not now showing their original paint as they have
been constantly redone by caretakers of the cultural story, the
initiated men. Many of these used a process called stenciling.

These painting show many layers of paint carefully applied decade on decade.